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MONBOEI ' LAm., JULY 4. 1879.
THE CONVENTION.
The State debt has occupied much
time of late in the Convention. A
majority and a minority report were
submitted; the debate was exhaustive;
a middle ground was manifest, and
both reports wore doomed. A vote
was had on Monday. The minority
report was rejected-yeas 49, nays 80;
the majority report was rejected also
yeas 89, nays 90. A number of substi
tutes were offered looking to scaling
the debt, but were voted .down.
Tuesday the matter was settled by re
cogulsing the principal of the debt as
Ared under the Funding Act, but reduc
ing the Interest to 8 per cent for fifteen I
years and 4 per cent thereafter. The
reason eems to be that by funding the
debt under the Act of 1874, the valid ,
and invalid, the legal and fraudulent t
portions of the debt became so confused 8
as to defy any efforts of separation. I
The question naturally suggests itself, 1
Has there been any attempt to sift the
debt? None whatever. Then is the
Convention justifiable in avoiding the
main issue, the gravamen of its convo
cation, by a compromise? Twelve
millions of debt hang over us, more
than half of which has no legal exist
enee; three hundred and sixty thou
sand dollars annual interest-and all for
no other assignable excuse than that it
is inexpedient to question the statutory
laws of a time when money could have
aggravated as easily as it fixed the
burden upon us. We did hope that it
would never be, but the confession is
forced from. us-Ire bondholders lead
us.
The action of the Convention in
locating the capitol permanently at
Baton Rouge is decidedly satisfactory. I
The vote stood, 84 yeas, 24 nays. As
we have had occasion to say heretofore,
the vote last Fall was an instruction to
theConvention, and a simple ordinance
was all that was necessary to put it 1
into force.
An ordinance requiring all commit
tees to submit their reports by the 3rd
Inst., and the appointment of a conm
mittee of revision of the Constitution,
inspires the hope that the labors of the
Convention are drawing to a close.
We gather from odds and ends that
there will be a general election next
Fall for all omllcers, and that the Con.
stitution will be submitted at the same
time. We have not favored submis
sion, but if it must be, then It ought to
be in a manner to insure a lull and
fair expression of opinion; and that can
be done only by a general election.
We suggest to the Convention that
the Debt Ordinance be submitted for 8
rejection or ratification, separate and 9
distinct from the Constitution. Let 8
the people say what they owe or do not C
owe.
A BRITTLE TIIREAI).
We have lost the thread of our argu
ment. Some small urchin, a truant
who did not care whether school kept,
or not, has captured this thread, no
doubt for a kite string. Some writer t
has said-not tpsisima verba, exactly- t
that the man who gets up early and t
plans out the transactions of the day's r
work, carries on a thread that will
guide him through the labyrinth of h
the meest busy life. This ,busy thread v
is lost. It is of no particular value Ii
that we know of, except that it is lost
-akin to health, or blessings, which
have no value until they are gone. t
Bright-plumaged birds, lost opportuni- v
ties, and all the ships sent to sea.
Knitting, the other day, we dropped
a stitch." It was a careless piece of s
work. The thread was on our little I
finger, and the thread is lost. Who-i
ever finds this lost thread will be well t
rewarded by returning it to this offico. I
Woe givoa description which we find c
in the Ouachita Telegraph of Septem
ber 28th, 1808, nearly eleven years ago:
"Now, tax-payers! What think you
of such corruption-of such a legisla
ture? Are you disposed to pay such
appropriations out of your hard earn
lags--to take the clothes from the
baciks of your wives and children, and I
the bread from their mouthls, in order
to sustain a political faction, to pamper
carpetebaggers, or to support the wid
owed wenches wheoe husbands have
ljstly sufflered death for their own
damnable deeds? If you are, what, in
Heaven's name, has become of your
.manhood ?
",We have hesitated, in the hole such
a course might be avoided; but there
is no longer ground for hope to stand
upon, and now,
*cWE RAISE THE BANNEIt O`F EPU
DIATION I
,"We call upon the people to rally to
the standard, and resolve, as freemcn
should, that they will not pay one
dollar of the taxes assessed by the
legislature now in session, and that
they repudiate, now and forever, every
obligation incurred by that corrupt
and irresponsible body of individuals.
Those men are without authority to
impose taxes, and the people are under
no legal or moral obligation to pay
them. To be robbed, and not resist it,
is cowardice. To pay tribute to such
scoundrels is a sin against GOD ! "
LOUISIANA IN TIlE U. S. SENATE.
In discussing in the U. S. Senate the
repeal of the juror's test oath law,
(Senator Conkling on the floor,) the
following reliable information was
given :
Mr. President, the honorable Sena
tor from Iowa (Mr. Kirkwood) brings
to.my notice a kindred instance, one
between which and this from Alabama
there is striking resemblance, the case
of the State of Louisiana, in which, I
understand from his hasty statement,
a statute clothes the Governor with the
power at his option, when he chooses,
and where he chooses, to appoint for a
parish-which means a county-agents
of his, I care not what they are called,
to make up the body of men and the
selection from which the jurors are to
be drawn.
Mr. Kirkweood-Tho Senator will al
low me a moment to state that.
Mr. Conkling-I wish you would
state it.
Mr. Kirkoood-By the law of Louis
iana jurors are selected by a body of
men, five in each parish, called police
jurors. Itso happened, of course, that
in Republican parishes a portion at
least of those police jurors were Repub
licans. At the first session of the leg
islature after the advent of Governor
Nicholls to office a law was passedl au
I thorizing him to add to the number of
! police jurors In any parish in which he
chose to do so five additional police
jurors of his own selection; the result
of which was that in parishes where
there was a majority of Republican po
lice jurors the additional five were
added, giving to our Democratic
friends the control of the body.
ifr. Cbnkling-This dispensing clause
gives permission to any judge, who
over he may be, to resort to the State
boxes fox juries when those boxes have
been filled by the most licentious exer
cise of the power described by the
Honorable Senator from Iowa; and
titus, upon the option of any judge,
questions of the last moment, questions
involving the national right, questions
involving the national right with for
eign nations, as questions submitted to
a jury very often do, all questions in
volving rights of citizenship, the rights
of citizens of all races and all colors,
are to be submitted to a jury picked
and culled under State authority and
under the inspiration of sectional, of
partisan, and of other local prejudice;
and that is one of the ornaments of
this bill I
And this in the Senate of the United
Slates ! Where was Senator Jonas, or
Senator Kellogg, when the thrilling
statement of Senator Kirkwood's,
and approved by the New York Sen
ator, was made that the police jurors
of the several parishes of this State
make up the venire ? There is not a
negro In Kansas who could not instruct
either the Senator from New York, or
the Senator from Iowa on this point.
V., S. & T. IIAILRltOD.
We find in the Railroad Gazette, of
the 27th nit., the following in rel.rence,
to the meeting of the bondholders of
the Vicksburg, Shreveport & Texas
railroad, held at Macon, Georgia:
At the recent meeting of the bond
holders in Macon, Ga., a committee
was appointed to represent the bond
holders at the coning sale of the road,
and to buy the property if thought
necessary to protect their interests. In
the event of a purchase of the road for
the bondholders, the general feeling
was in favor of its immediate exten
sion from Monroe to Shreveport.
This, we understand, is a correct
statement of what transpired at the
Mlacon conference. ThoCommitteo ap
mpointed at that nmeeting is composed of
the following named gentlemcen: Gen.
H. IR. Jackson, L. P. Grant, Prcsident
of the Atlanta and WVe.st Point railroad,
VWm. . . nVadley, President of the
Georgla Central railroad, Edward
Hoopes, of Philadelphia, and II. I.
Plant, President of the Southern Ex
press Companly. We do not under
stand that the bondholders, as is inti
mated by the Gazette, purpose going
further in bidding in the road than the
amount of of their debt, principal and
interest, which is about $1,90)0,000.
We are not advised when the sale of
the road will take Ilace. The lparties
in interest, we luearn, have tiled their
statements with Judge WVoodl, who htas
the execution of the decree of the U. 8.
Supreme Court in charge, and Judge
1Vood has lot, as yet, tixedl uporn a day
for the sale.
CONKLINt AND BLAINE.
why They Never Speak--The Unpleas
antness of April, 1866.
[St. Louis Globo-Democrat.]
In discussing the Conkling-Lamar
affair which now seems to have van
Ished in words, it is evident from the
conversation of Republican Senators
that they are not entirely in sympathy
with Mr. Conkling. Several of them,
recounting some of the former contro
versies of a similar character, in which
the Senator from Now York has been
a conspicuous and an aggressive party,
recounted the time of his parliament.
ary tilt with Blaine on April 80, 1866.
The subject under discussion was the
Investigation of Provost Marshal Glen.
Fry for frauds charged by Conkling in
the Provost Marshal's Department of
the Western Division of. New York.
Blaine had critlcised Conkling's volu
bility of speech and charged that Conk
ling was prosecutor in the case, and
produced a letter from Assistant Secre
tary of War Dana to Conkling, and
read the law against the latter acting
In any such capacity. This Conkling
denied, and Blaine, wishing to inter
ject a remark, Conkling said: "I do
not wish to have anything to do with
the member from Maine, not even so
much as to yield to him the floor. If
the member from Maine had the least
idea how profoundly indifferent I am
to his opinion on this or any other
subject personal to me, I think he
would hardly take the trouble to rise
here and express his opinion." And,
in apologizing to the House for delay
ing the proceedings, he characterized
Blaine's interruptions as "ungentle
manly and impertinent." Blaine, await
lung his opportunity, took the floor and
said: "As to the gentleman's cruel sar.
canm, I hope he will not be too severe.
The contempt of that large-minded
gentleman is so wilting, his haughty
disdain, his grandiloquent swell, his
majestic, supereminent, overpowering,
f turkey-gobler's strut has been so crash
Sling to myself and all the members of
t this House that I know it was an act
t of great temerity for me to enter upon
- a controversy with hho. I know that
within the last five weeks, as members
r of the House will recollect, an extra
strut has characterized the gentleman's
f bearing. It is not his fault; It is the
fault of another. That gifted and sa
tirical writer, Theodore Tilton, of the
LNew York Independent, spent some
weeks in this city. His letters pub
lished in that paper, embraced, with
many serious statements, a little jocose
satire, a part of which was the state
ment that the mantle of the late Win
ter Davis had fallen upon the member
from New York. The gentleman took
it seriously, and it has given his strut
additional pomposity. The resemblance
is great. IIyperion to a Satyr; Thor
Isites to Hercules; mud to marble; dung
: hill to diamond; a singed cat to a Ben
, gal tiger; a whining puppy to a roaring
lion. Shades of the mighty Davis, for
s give the almost profanity of that jocose
satire." The Senator from Now York
. kept his seat in silence. Since that
day to this no word of a personal nan
s ture has been exchanged between these
gentlemen. In debate, at a public
I meeting, at an evening entertainment,
I or at a dinner party, they meet but
f never speak. Their conduct, however,
tempered by the proprieties of good
f society, has been so directed that their
personal hostility would not be recog
nized by persons not cognizant of their
relations.
BONDIIOLDEIS' PRESSURE.
[Madison Journal.]
The press of Noew Orleans seems to
be pretty well under the influence of
the bondholders, if letter writers for
the country papers make correct re
ports, and we have no right to doubt
them. A correspondent of the Colum
bia IHerald, and a delegate, we pre
suilc, writes that it is little known in
the country what tremendous pressure
has been brought to bear upon the well
known repudiating section of the Con
vention. Every paper in the city, the
f oe and Item excepted, is opposed to
them, and the Times and Picayune do
f not scruple to belittle them, especially
the former. IIe seems to think those
-who are opposed to paying the bonds
that were conceived in iniquity and
issued in fraud, have stood up very
well, considering that there are so
-many forces andl elements at work
against them. The Democrat, that
first started the light, is now on the
other sile, which fact leaves the "re
piudiators" without any possibility of
gainiug the public ear, and of laying
.before the country their views of the
subject, except through the columns of
the tBee and the Item, and their circu
lation in this section is very limited,
and we suppose the same is true all
over North Louisiana.
The course of the Item is manly and
just, for it believes in paying every
dollar that the State justly owes and
repudiating all the bonds fraudulently
put upon the mnarket. The Item states
that mnoney is being used amongst the
coloredl tldelgates of thoe Convention and
others. If so, we will have another
"airing of dirty linen" in Now Orleans
alter awhile, land the parties thereto
will not be coufined altogether to the
Republicans. The bribe receipts, to
gethler with the names of the promi=
nent manipulators, will come to the
front and tell all who were bribed and
voted in favor of paying the fraudu
leutly i.sued bonds, antl who got paid
for turning an unexpected somersault.
We believe in repuldiation to the ex
tent of ignoring the fraudulently cro
ated debt, and then reducing the rate
of interest on all legitimate bonds
found after the closest examination. It
is bosh to say that the funding scheme
cannot now bhe at all questioned, it
having been rccogniz.tI by the Nich
oils Goverument and the Supremle
Court. The desperate condition of
LouIsiara requires a desperate remedy,
and besides, the platform of the Dem
ocratic party declared that none of the
fraudulent bonds would or should ever o
be paid. Instead of indulging in so t
much "wind work" let the Convention t
pick out the proper debt, make pro- d
vision for its payment, and push ahead s
with the neglected business. There t
has been entirely too much time wasted t
and fustian used on the debt question. c
It has been discussed In all its bear
ings and the people want a little deci- s
sive action on the part of the delegates.
A GROWL FROM THE NORTIIERN
DEMOCRATS.
[Special to Cincinnati Enquirer.] I
The feeling still runs high among I
the Northern Democrats against their I
Southern brethren. They charge that I
the Southern men sold out to the Pres
ident, and that the dicker was this :
Says the President to the Southern
members, "IXf you will give me all of
I the appropriation bills I will see to it
that you shall have the jurors' test oath 1
repealed, and I will get enough Repub- I
lican support to pass a bill providing
for the Mississippi river commission."
The trade was made with Garfield,
representing the President, and Ran
dall Gibson and Acklin of Louisiana, I
and Herbert of Alabama, representing I
the South. The first part of the trade
was consummated last week. Garfield I
made a speech favoring the Mississippi
commission bill, and for the earnest
ness he displayed received the ap- 4
plause ot the Democrats. The bill was
I passed, and notwithstanding the Re
| publicans led by Garfield had hereto
fore opposed the bill, enough were will
I Ing to stultify the record to seal the
bargain made. The repeal of the ju
rors' test oath was the next move.
I Although the Senate long since passed
a bill to repeal this oath as an inde
pendent measure, the House Republi
cans never would let it pass in this
shape. They saw in the desire the
f Southern men had to get the bill re
pealed, that if it was passed as a sep
, arate bill, the Republicans might not
t be able to get enough Southern votes I
a to prevent an adjournment, and thus
a the judicial bill would fail. Again
a Garfield, representing the President,
e steps to the front, says he: -",Ve will
not pass the jurors' test oath as a sep
a arate bill, but we will help you to pass
a it if you will put it in the judicial bill
- and strike out the second section of it,
z which repeals the law authorizing the
employment of deputy marshals."
This was objected to by the Southern
men, because they thought this plan
r was too palpable eon its face, and if I
they agreed to it, it might create such
t a stir within the party that both prop
a ositions might be lost. It was finally
decided to split the bill, ts has been
done. In one bill is the section re
pealing the test oath; In the other the
g prohibition against the employment of
r. deputy marshals. The Southern men
we ill stand by the first bill, it will pass
Ic both Houses of Congress, and will be
t signed by the President. The second
- bill will be vetoed; and the end will be
e that the appropriation for the marshals
c will be passed witLhtot any prohibition,
because enough Southern men have
,t gone into a bargain to bring it about.
, They have protested they will not, but
will do it solely to get the test oath
r repealed. When this is accomplished
they will sell out their Northern allies,
r and the deputy marshals will still be 1
authorized as a menace in all large
Democratic cities. The trading and
huckstering of votes which has been
going on for ten days has been simply
disgraceful, equalled only by the bar
gain pending the Electoral Count.
f McMahon is so disgusted with the situ
ation that to-day he refused point blank
to take charge of the marshals' bill.
Cobb, of Indiana, has charge of it, and
will try and push it through to-mor
row. Several Northern Democrats have
served notice on the Southern leaders
that hereafter they will not vote for
any bill for Southern improvements as
a distinctive proposition. The action
of the Republicans in voting solid
against the judicial bill is merely in
keeping with the programme agreed
on. They vote thus not because they
have any doubt that the bill will be
come a law, but to keep their record
" straight with their constituents. Be
tween patronage judiciously placed
and secret trades made in Congress, the
c administration, engineered by Sher
t man, is leading the Democratic party
as it listoth; and what is the disgusting
feature is that a good many Democrats
know it.
A negro woman by the name of
e Sophie Scott got into a row with an
old negro man named William Pier
man last week, and in the row Sophie
struck William on the head with a
heavy picket, cracking his skull and
Sknocking him senseless for several
minutes. In the preliminary trial be
fore the parish court Scott swore the
woman killed him dead and he "never
drew another breath!" Sophieo gave
bond to appear at district court.
SWednesday an old colored mian
passed the Chornicle oflice with a
Srelic of war times, an old spinning
o wheel. We expressed surprise at see
, ing it, and asked the old man if he
couldn't buy thread and cloth cheaper
than he could make it at home. He
,replied: "No, sar; becase when I ain't
Sgot no money I can't glt 'em at all."
Cblfa.x Chroniclc.
The supply of figs now ripening is
abundant. That delicious fruit cannot
be excelled in any country. It is strange
that some process for drying this great I
luxury for future use has not been dis
covered here. DrIed figs are brought
from the islands of the Mediterranean
and sold here whilst hundreds of bush
els of this fruit rot in this State every
year.-.~LafIorc .he&tind. I
THE GREENBACK CONSPIRACY. C
"
[Mobile Register.]
The Greenback party is simply a
conspiracy to draw men away from
the Democratic party for the benefit of
the Radicals. If there has been any
doubt heretofore as to the truth of this
Sstatement, that doubt is now set to rest I
by the recent amusing and very impor
tant mistake made at Washington the
other day by Congressman Hubbell,
Chairman of the Republican Congres
sional Committee. He mistook Con
gressman Turner, a stalwart Democrat,
for Congressman Robinson, Chairman
of the Ohio Republican Executive
State Committee. It seems that Mr.
Turner looks very much like Mr. Rob
Inson. Mr. Hubbell told him what
good service was being done the Re
publican party of Ohio by the Green
t back party, and commended the work
of the Greenback organ at Washington,
of which Mr. Lee Crandall, once pretty
well known in New Orleans and in
f Alabama, is manager. The organ in
t question is supposed to be inspired by
I Col. Lowe, as he and Crandall are from
- the same section ot Alabama. The
affair has grown so interesting that not
only is Mr. Turner out In a card recit
ing the prrticulars of his interview
with Mr. Hubbell, but Messrs. Clymer
and Kenna have also published state
; ments necessary to a full explanation
e of it. Mr. Turner says as he was pass
I ing along the Republican side of the
I House on his way to his seat a gentle
man whom the Assistant Doorkeeper,
Captain Knight, subsequently informed
s him was Mr. Hubbell, of Michigan,
;- stopped him and said he wanted to have
a word with him. Then Mr. Hubbell
asked if he knew the editor of the
a Greenback paper published on Penn
sylvania avenue. Mr. Turner says, "I
told him I did not remember him."
a He remarked: He is doing us great
and valuable service in Ohio and Ken
tucky; that he had attended the con
s vention in Ohio and prevented a fusion
e of the Democrats and Republicans;
that he was sending thousands of his
, papers into Kentucky and Ohio, mak
t ing inroads into the Democratic party
g and doing us much good. Mr. Hubbell
s then said: *"We are aiding him and it
a requires a great deal of money, and I
would like that you would aid him."
I I asked him the editor's name, and
pulling a card from his pocket he re
p plied, Lee Crandall. I looked at him
with surprise, and made no reply. He
then asked me to take the matter un
der consideration and aid him if I
could, and turned around and walked
s off. I could not account for his accost
ing me as he did Ontil I learned that
f he is the chairman of the Republican
h Congressional Committee, and took me
, for Mr. Robinson, chairman of the
Ohio Republican Executive State Com
mittee. Messrs. Clymer and Kenna,
In their cards, state that Mr. Hubbell
ie remarked to them that he had mis
,f taken Mr. Turner for Mr. Robinson.
n The Republican Greenbackers profess
i to see nothing strange in the conduct
e and declarations of Mr. Hubbell.
d Thus it was that Mr. Hubbell gave
e himself away to Mr. Turner, and thus
Is it -was that he at the same time gave
away Mr. Lee Crandall, Col. Wm.
e Lowe, Mr. Do La Matyr and all the
t little Greenback crowd.
t Mr. Leo Crandall, we would observe,
h is thrusting up his head into very un
d enviable notoriety. As he is conspir
ing against the Democratic party, and
o therefore against the South, while pro
a fessing to be friendly to us, it may be
just as welt to begin ventilating him
that is if he is worth ventilation.
WHAT IT MEANS.
[Conshatta Citizen.]
We are told that the recommitment
I. of the opposing reports on the public
debt means a compromise. Some say
that the principal will be left untouch
e ed, but that the representatives of the
s bondholders are willing to agree to a
r material reduction in the matter of in
s terest in order to quiet the clamor of
n the country for relief. Others declare
that both principal and interest will be
a reduced. Those who favor the minori
d ty report insist, however, that the re
Y commitment is equivalent to thedefeat
of the majority report, and that it is
altogether in favor of the cause cham
pioned by Messrs. Semmes, Caffrey and
others. This we should be sorry to see
e proved. It would imply a criminal dis
- regard by many delegates of the wishes
Y and instructions of their constituents,
g and a determination to saddle upon the
s taxpayers of the State what, on a thou
sand occasions, they have publicly de
nounced as a fraud.
)f To thus provide for the continuation
n of the same old chronic ailment would
- be an Infamous breach of trust. It
0 would not only furnish the testimony
a of Louisiana witnesses against the
Struth of our repeated stories ofcomplaint
1 for lo these many years, but would
bind the burden still closer and more
e hienously to the shoulders of our peo
r ple. Under the rule of Radicalism,
'outrage and robbery were not unex
pected; but those who have it in their
Spower to be free, and instead of achiev
a ing that result, rivet more closely the
g fetters of fraud and usurpation, are, to
say the least of it, recreant to their du
Sty, to themselves, and to posterity. It
SI will not do simply to reduce the inter
e est; some concession must be made as
t to the principal as well; for, however
-tolerant public opinion may be as to
political mistakes, it will scarcely give
its approval to the perpetuation of an
a oppressive fraud.
A heavy public debt, even when
o honestly incurred, is a public curse,
t and with the various classes of public
-debts which our people have to con
tend a:gainst, there is but little chalnce
to meet the demands of private credit
ors. Hence priv:ate credit suffers and
y our industries beconme impairced. Get
the curse of bonds out or the way, and
capital, instead of being invested in
interest-bearing speculations, would be
devoted to such legitimate uses as the
vitalization of our industries and the
building up of real values.
Our delegates must not come home
and say that they could not furnish the
relief expected of them; that they
placed themselves under bondage to
the bondholders and found it easier to
betray their constituents than to re
fuse to do the bidding of their new
taskmasters I
Out upon the virtue which puts its
hands to the plow and then, looking
back, effects a compromise with fraud.
DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.
On the up.trip of the steamerDanube
there were several lively young ladies
aboard who indulged in a little play
fulness which proved a very serious
affair.
While the steamer was at a wood
yard the girls went ashore and then
noticed a wagon to which was attached
a yoke of oxen who were quietly lying
down and chewing the cud of sweet
and better fancies. In a spirit of mis
chief they mounted the wagon and one
of them picked up the driver's whip
and applied the lash to the animals.
r They, thereupon, ran away and the
young ladies were thrown from the
wagon. Miss Joyce, daughter of Mr.
M. W. Joyce, of New Orleans, was se
riously if not fatally injured. Both
wheels of the wagon passed over her
body. Miss Carrie Brower, of allas,
had her arnm broken in two places,
while the other three were slightly
bruised. Miss Joyce and her mother
were transferred from the Danube to
the Yazoo }ralley, and taken back to
New Orleaik. Miss Brewer's arm was
reset here by Dr. Clay, and was taken
out on the train yesterday.
Dr. Jackson, of Montgomery, gave all
necessary attention to the unfortunate
young ladies.-Shreveport Times.
At the present term of our District
Court there happened some queer
pranks among some of the jurors, wit
nesses and prisoners. After dark, on
the evening of the 5th inst., Miles
Joiner, colored, one of the jurors on a
most important murder case then on
trial, after having sat on the jury and
listened to all the witnesses in the case
save one, took to his heels while out
in the court yard on a recess, without
any apparent cause therefor, breaking
up and turning to nought all proceed
ings in the trial, and necessitating the
drawing of a now jury. A short while
t previous, Jack Hayes, an important
witness in the same case, made him
self conspicuously absent when called,
and his whereabouts, if they be on
this mundane sphere, have not been
discovered. EloiPrejean was pqt upon
trial on the 15th inst., on a charge of
rape, and after having gone through
about half his trial, took advantage of
a recess of the court and sailed for safer
shores. HIe went off half tried, and
was probably in too much of a hurry
to wait for the other half.- Vermillion
Aferidional.
On Wednesday night of this week a
fearful tragedy was enacted on the
east bank of the river in this parish.
Mr. Oscar Dupuy, a native of this par
' ish, heretofore considered a most In
offensive person, and related to some of
the best people of the parish, in a fit of
mental aberration, conceived the idea
of entering upon the premises of Mr.
A. Layrisson, about half-past 11 o'clock.
He was warned away by threats from
Mr. Layrisson, but he shortly after ro
turned armed with a cooper's axe, a
hatchet, a razor and an iron hook. Mr.
Layrisson awoke his clerk, Mr. Law
hon, and they both endeavored by
t threats to drive away Mr. Dupuy, but
c without effect. Mr. Dupuy persisting
V in attempting to do bodily harm upon
Mr. Lawhon, the latter fired a shot
0 from a double barreled shot gun, load
L ed with small shot, into the abdomen
of Dupuy. Mr. Dupuy has since died
f from the effects of the wound and Mr.
0 Lawhon is now a prisoner awaiting a
e preliminary examination. - Jberville
S- outh.
,t The question of holding Sunday
services has divided the wealthiest
a- Jewish congregation in Chicago.
SRIabbi IKohler sought to effect a com
promise by keeping up the regular
observance on Sat urday, and having a
a sermon on Sundlay. The result was
that thle attendance was large on Sun
e day, but dwindled to almost nothing
on Saturday, and his demand that all
members should be present on the lat
ter day was so generally disregarded
a that he has resigned.
t The Irish potato crop of this parish
V was unusually good the present season,
Sthe yield being much larger than ever
t known before, and the quality of the
1 tuberous escunlent very superior. The
a potatoes brought a good cash price in
-St. Louis and Chicago. Another crop,
Sfor fall digging, might be put in with
- the first rain; but we suppose that the
r potato ground has been generally
pl:anted in corn.-.3ladi~son Journal.
The idea that you can read a man's
Sthoughts in his face is all bosh. Look
the man in the face who borrowed $10
of you a year ago "for a d(ay or two,"
s and it expresses nothing but blankness
-r -the blankest kind.
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Two Mormon missionaries are ill
SAlabama getting up a big colony to go
to the land of many wives in (Xto
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F Arti.stic picturcs of heauty portray a
- profusion of hair. All can wear beau
C tiful locks by using Ayor's Hair Vigor.
I One hundred barrcls I. wat-rmlelolus
were, shil~pped illone dhy last week
ft'rom G-ainesvillc, Fin.